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With more than a dash of glamour and serious helpings of style, the witty and courageous Phryne Fisher returns. In 1928 St Kilda’s streets hang with fairy lights. Magic shows, marionettes, tea dances, tango competitions, life-saving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all part of the Flower Parade. And who else should be chosen to be Queen of the Flowers but the gorgeous, charming and terribly fashionable Hon Phryne Fisher? Phryne needs a new dress and a swimming costume but she also needs a lot of courage to confront her problems: a missing daughter, the return of an old lover, and a young woman found drowned at the beach at Elwood.

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The Delightful Phryne

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Great Story

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Old Friends Enliven Flower Festival

In her 14th adventure, Phryne Fisher has been chosen Flower Queen of the 1928 St. Kilda's Annual Festival of Flowers, a sort of mixture of county fair, circus week, and mardi gras. Among the old friends who show up are a wonderful woman who does a circus act with 4 elephants who are more pets than working animals, and an ex-lover of Phryne's from one of the Orkney Islands.

In the midst of preparations for the Flower Parade, one of the Flower Maids disappears and is believed to be kidnapped, and then Phryne's adopted daughter Ruth disappears. With the help of Bert & Cec, other daughter Jane, the police and her circus friends, Phryne finds both missing girls and uncovers a whiteslave ring, of course all in the nick of time for the Flower Parade. In addition to all that action, Ruth identifies and meets her biological father.

In a very busy plot, Kerry Greenwood manages to keep her usual light approach and still to display all the spirit, elan, confidence, caring, and righteous anger the reader has come to expect from Phryne in any given situation. And Stephanie Daniel delivers all of those emotions and more with her usual skill and style. I would rate this as one of the best of the Phryne Fisher books.

Fun read

Where does Queen of the Flowers rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I listen and read to relax. This book is great for easy listening and enjoying a story. Ms. Fisher is what many of us women secretly wish we were. Confident, totally independent, apologising to no one for who she is.

What did you like best about this story?

It's dependability, and humor. Even discussing a very real and grusome situation it was still enjoyable and never became maudelin.

Have you listened to any of Stephanie Daniel’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

She is great as Phrynie Fisher. I don't believe I have heard any other recordings of her work.

Stephenie Daniel has outdone herself.

This is one of Stephenie Daniel's best performances! the Orkney accents were beautiful, and she keeps up with Phryne very well. I loved the addition of the epistlary format interspersed throughout. It added a layer to the story that was interesting and heartbreaking at the same time.

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I adore this series and all the characters. So well written, so well read.Phryne continues to lead by example, astonishing some and influencing many. One of her adopted daughters is the main focus but we also see some circus action and a couple of so called gentlemen brought to justice. I can listen to these books endlessly.

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Better than the TV!

If you could sum up Queen of the Flowers in three words, what would they be?

Delightful, enthralling, evocative

Who was your favorite character and why?

Phryne Fisher, she is so accomplished, stylish and resourceful.

What about Stephanie Daniel’s performance did you like?

You concentrate on the story, not the delivery.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

One of Phryne's adopted daughters meets her mortally ill Mother.

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Mrs W.

03-10-15

make accents more authentic, please

Is there anything you would change about this book?

yes, please try and make accents used sound more authentic, it really distracts when they are laboured and don't sound right!

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Rodney Fielding

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Scintillating tale of love and crime

Another of Kerry Greenwood's delightful and sometimes scary books centring on private detective Phryne Fisher. Perhaps there were a few too many characters in this one, but all were well-drawn, with a place in the colourful world of circus and carnival in the St Kilda of 1928. Phryne is Queen of the Flowers in a version of an actual event in that year, but leading up to that is a story of broken family relationships, missing girls and some dastardly figures of crime and corruption. I enjoyed it all thoroughly, especially as read by Stephanie Daniel.